Isolated rat hepatocyte couplets were used to perform the comparative study of two widely used immunosuppressors, cyclosporin A (CsA) and tacrolimus (FK506) on hepatocanalicular function. We assessed canalicular function by counting the percentage of couplets that were able to accumulate the fluorescent cholephile, cholyl-lysyl-fluorescein (CLF), into the canalicular vacuole between the two cel...

This paper develops a novel control synthesis method for safe stabilization of control-affine systems as Differential Complementarity Problem (DCP). Our design uses Lyapunov function (CLF) and barrier (CBF) to define complementarity constraints in the DCP formulation certify stability safety, respectively. The CLF-CBF-DCP controller imposes soft constraint, which is automatically relaxed when s...

A 12-year-old boy presented to the clinic of ophthalmology because of watering and discharge from his left lower eyelid. The inspection examination revealed an orifice that was associated with congenital lacrimal fistula (CLF). He underwent a complete ophthalmologic and systemic evaluation to explore possible associated findings. Systemic evaluation revealed multiple renal anomalies: right rena...

A control design method for nonlinear systems based on control Lyapunov functions and inverse optimality is analyzed. This method is shown to recover the LQ optimal control when applied to linear systems. More generally, it is shown to recover the optimal control whenever the level sets of the control Lyapunov function match those of the optimal value function. The method can be readily applied...

We analyzed the serum antibody responses against two Staphylococcus aureus fibrinogen binding proteins, the cell-bound clumping factor (Clf) and an extracellular fibrinogen binding protein (Efb). The material consisted of 105 consecutive serum samples from 41 patients suffering from S. aureus septicemia and 72 serum samples from healthy individuals. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) ...

BACKGROUND Some probiotic strains have the potential to assist in relieving the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease. The impact of daily ingestion of a soy-based product fermented by Enterococcus faecium CRL 183 and Lactobacillus helveticus 416 with the addition of Bifidobacterium longum ATCC 15707 on chemically induced colitis has been investigated thereof within a period of 30 days. METH...

The present study has a strong focus on the practical aspects of the effect of Seaweed liquid fertilizers (SLF) and Chemical liquid fertilizer (CLF) on the earthworms. The three different types of seaweeds such as Caulerpa scalpelliformis (Chlorophyta), Cheilosporum spectabile(Rhodophyta), Sargassum wightii (Phaeophyta) were taken. The earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae was reared in a cowdung based m...

Polycomb-group (Pc-G) proteins are important regulators of many developmental processes in plants and animals and repress gene expression by imparting histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3). Here, we present the identification of the novel, plant-specific Arabidopsis thaliana protein BLISTER (BLI), which interacts with the Pc-G histone methyltransferase CURLY LEAF (CLF). We map the inte...